Shakespeare

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Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love Your Majesty according to my bond, no more, no less.

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Cordelia

Kind Lear

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Good my lord, you have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit, obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry sure I shall never marry like my sisters, to love my father all.

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Cordelia

King Lear

Front 3

Let it be so! Thy truth be thy dower! For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, the mysteries of Hectate and the night, by all the operation of the orbs from whom we do exist and cease be, here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity, and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart and me hold these from this forever.

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Lear

King Lear
- disowns her, her dowry is being detracted

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The barbarous Scythian, or he that makes his generation messes to forge his appetite, shall to my bosom be as well neighbored, pities, and relieved as thou my sometime daughter.

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Lear

King Lear
- time eating his own children - natural/unnatural, something's wrong here

Front 5

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound. Wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom and permit the curiosity of nations to deprive me, for that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines lag of a brother? Why bastard? Wherefore base?

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Edmund

King Lear

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When my dimensions are as well compact, my mind as generous, and my shape as true, as honest madam's issue? Why brand they us with base? With basenes? Bastardy? Base, base?

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Edmund

King Lear

Front 7

Who in the lusty stealth of nature take more composition and fierce quality than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed do to th' creating a whole tribe of fops got 'tween asleep and wake?

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Edmund

King Lear

Front 8

Well, then, legitimate Edgar, I must have your land. Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund as to the' legitimate. Fine word, "legitimate!" Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed and my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top th' legitimate. I grow, I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for the bastards!

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Edmund

King Lear

Front 9

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.

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Gloucester

King Lear

Things are bad because of the stars

Front 10

The King falls from bias of nature; there's father against child.

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Gloucester

King Lear

Front 11

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeits of our own behavior-we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance

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Edmund

King Lear

Front 12

Fut, I should have been that I am, had maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizling.

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Edmund

King Lear

Front 13

Hear, Nature, hear! Dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility; dry up in her the organs of increase, and from her derogate body never spring a babe to honor her!

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Lear

King Lear

Front 14

If she must teem, create her child of spleen, that it may live and be a thwart disnatured torment to her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, with cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, turn all her mother's pains and benefits to laughter and contempt, that she may feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

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Lear

King Lear
- an extended curse of his own child (make her steril) but there is justice b/c of the "taste of own medicine"
- going against natural order b/c goneril should have children to carry on the throne

Front 15

Oh, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; if only to go warm were gorgeous, why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, which scarcely keeps thee warm.

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Lear

King Lear

patience to bear pain

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But, for true need-you heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.

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Lear

King Lear

Front 17

No, you unnatural hags,I will haev such revenges on you both that all the world shall-I will do such things-what they are yet I know not, but they shall be what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep; no, I'll not weep.

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Lear

King Lear
- groping around, doesn't know what he's sayi8ng, not cohesive, he beginning to melt apart

Front 18

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulfurous and through-executing fires

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Lear

King Lear

Front 19

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children. You owe me no subscription.

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Lear

King Lear

Front 20

Here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old. But yet I call you servile ministers, that will with two pernicious daughters join your high engendered battles 'gainst a head

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Lear

King Lear
nature is doing the same as his daughters in warning against him

Front 21

Let the great gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, that hast within thee divulged crimes unwhipped of justice!

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Lear

King Lear
tremble: earthquake to shake part these secrets so that justice can occur

Front 22

Close pent-up guilts, rive your concealing continents and cry these dreadful summoners grace! I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

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Lear

King Lear

Front 23

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, how shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you from season such as these? Oh, I have ta'en too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, that thou mayst shake the superflux to them and show the heavens more just.

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Lear

King Lear
-human side of this division

Front 24

By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale, and when 'tis told, oh, that my heart would burst the bloody proclamation to escape that followed me so near-oh, our lives' sweetness, rather than die at once!-tuaght me to shift into a madman's rags, t'assume a semblance that very dogs disdained; and in this habit met I my father with his bleeding rings, their precious stones new lost; became his guide, led him, begged for him, saved him from despair

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Edgar

King Lear

Front 25

Fulvia perchance is angry, or who knows if the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent his powerful mandate to you, "Do this, or this; take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; perform't, or else we damn thee.

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra
- belittling antony

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Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike feeds beast as man.The nobleness of life is to do thus; when such a mutual pair and such a twain can do't, in which I bind, on pain of punishment, the world to weet we stand up peerless.

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Antony

Antony and Cleopatra
- he'll do what he wants and forget Rome, there love affair is a momentary state, a sense that it will end

Front 27

Oh, never was there queen so mightily betrayed! Yet at the first I saw the treasons planted.

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 28

Nay, pray you, seek no color for your going, but bid farewell and go. When you sued staying, then was the time for words. No going, then. Eternity was in our lips and eyes, bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor but was a race of heaven. They are so still, or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, art turned the greatest liar.

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra
- their love is fleeting, eternity can't be "was"(contradictory), their love should be eternal, yet it's over

Front 29

The oars were silver, which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the water which they beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggared all description: she did lie in her pavilion-cloth-of-gold of tissue-O'erpicturing that Venus where we see the fancy outwork nature. On each side her stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, with divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem to glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, and what they undid, did.

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Enobarbus

Antony and Cleopatra
paradox of actions

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Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, so many mermaids, tended her i'th'eyes and made their bends adorings. At the helm a seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, that yarley frame the office.

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Enobarbus

Antony and Cleopatra
all things are drawn to her

Front 31

That-oh, times!-I laughed him our of patience; and that night I laughed him into patience; and that night I laughed him into patience. And next morn, ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed, then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst I wore his sword Philippan.

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 32

If I lose mine honor, I lose myself; better I were not yours than yours so branchless.

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Antony

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 33

He hath given his empire up to a whore; who now are levying the kings o'th'earth for war.

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Caesar

Front 34

Oh, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See how I convey my shame out of thine eyes by looking back what I have left behind 'stroyed in dishonor.

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Antony

Antony and Cleopatra
- regretting and now regretting what they have done. Not clear how to rectify the action

Front 35

Egypt, thou knew'st too well my heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings, And thou shouldst tow me after. O'er my spirit thy beck might from the bidding of the gods command me.

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Antony

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 36

Now I must to the young man send humble treaties, dodge and palter in the shifts of lowness, who with half the bulk o'th' world played as I pleased, making and marring fortunes. You did know how much you were my conqueror, and that my sword, made weak by my affection, would obey it on all cause

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Antony

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 37

To lean upon; but it would warm his spirits to hear from me you had left Antony and put yourself under his shroud, the universal landlord

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Thidias

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 38

I kiss his conquering hand. Tell him I am prompt to lay my crown at's feet, and there to kneel till from his all-obeying breath I hear the doom of Egypt

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 39

Ah, dear, if I be so, from my cold heart let heaven engender hail, and poison it in the source, and the first stone drop in my neck; as it determines, so dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite, till by degrees the memory of my womb, together with my brave Egyptians all, by the discandying of this pelleted storm lie graveless till the flies and gnats of Nile have buried them for prey!

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Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 40

O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, the poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, that life, a very rebel to my will, may hang no longer on me. Throw my heart against the flint and hardness of my fault, which, being dried with grief, will break to powder and finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, nobler than my revolt is infamous

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Enobarbus

Antony and Cleopatra

Front 41

I wonder, Doctor, thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been thy pupil long? Hast thou not learned me how to make perfumes? Distill? Preserve? Yea, so that our great king himself doth woo me oft for my confections?

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Queen

Cymbeline

Front 42

Thanks, fairest lady. What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes to see this vaulted arch and the rich crop of sea and land, which can distinguish twixt the fiery orbs above and the twinned stones upon th' unnumbered beach, and can we not partition make with spectacles so precious twixt fair and foul?

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Iachimo

Cymbeline

Front 43

It cannot be i'th' eye, for apes and monkeys twixt two such shes would chatter this way and contemn with mows the other; nor i'th' judgment, for idiots in this case of favor would be wisely definite; nor i'th' appetite: sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed, should make desire vomit emptiness, not so allured to feed.

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Iachimo

Cymbeline

Front 44

Had I this cheek to bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch, whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul to th' oath of loyalts; this object, which takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye, fixing it only here; should I, damned then, slaver with lips as common as the stairs that mount the Capitol

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Iachimo

Cymbeline

Front 45

The crickets sing, and man's o'erlabored sense repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus did softly press the rushes ere he wakened the chastity he wounded.

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Iachimo

Cymbeline

Front 46

You sin against obedience, which you owe your father. For the contract you pretend with that base wretch, one bred of alms and fostered with cold dishes, with scraps o'th' court, it is no contract, none. And though it be allowed in meaner parties-yet who then he more mean?

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Cloten

Cymbeline

Front 47

To knit their souls on whom there is no more dependency but brats and beggary, in self-figured knot, yet you are curbed from that enlargement by the consequence o'th crown, and must not foil the precious note of it with a base slave, a hilding for a livery

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Cloten

Cymbeline

Front 48

He never can meet more mischance than come to be but named of thee. HIs mean'st garment that ever hath but clipped his body dearer in my respect than all the hairs above thee, were they all made such men.

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Imogen

Cymbeline

Front 49

Is there no way for men to be, but women must be half-workers? We are all bastards, and that most venerable man which I did call my father was I know not where when I was stamped.

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Posthumus

Cymbeline

Front 50

Be it lying, not it, the woman's; flattering, her's deceiving, hers; lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers; ambitions

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Posthumus

Cymbeline
- irrational core of hate, women take the fall

Front 51

Where is thy head? Where's that? Ay me, where's that? Pisanio might have killed thee at the heart and left his head on. How should this be? Pisanio? Tis he and Cloten. Malice and lucre in them have laid this woe here.

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Imogen

Cymbeline

Front 52

Oh, what, am I a mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother rejoiced deliverance me. Blest pray you be, that, after this strange starting from your orbs, you may reign in them now! O Imogen, thou hast lost by this a kingdom.

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Cymbeline

Cymbeline

Front 53

Too hot, too hot! To mingle freindship far is mingling bloods. I have tremor cordis on me. My heart dances, but not for joy, not joy. This entertainment may a free face put on, derive a liberty from heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, and well become the agent. 'T may, I grant. But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, as now they are, and making practiced smiles as in a looking glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere the mort o'th' deer

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Leontes

Winter's Tale
-jealousy bodily affects him

Front 54

Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have to be full like me. Yet they say we are almost as like as eggs. Women say so, that will say anything. But were they false as o'erdyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false as dice are to be wished by one that fixes no bourn twixt his and mine, yet were it true to say this boy were like me.

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Leontes
Winter's Tale

Front 55

I'fecks, why, that's my bawcock. What, hast smutched thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain, we must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain. Any yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf are all called neat.-Still virginaling upon his palm?- How now, you wanton calf? Art thou my calf?

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Leontes

Winter's Tale
- his relationship to his son is in question

Front 56

Come, sir page, look on me with you welkin eye. Sweet villain! Most dear'st! My collop! Can thy dam?-may't be?- Affection, thy intention stabs the center. Thou dost make possible things not so held, communicat'st with dreams-how can this be? With what's unreal thou coactive art

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Leontes

Winter's Tale
thou --> affection

Front 57

How blest am I in my just censure, in my true opinion! Alack, for lesser knowledge! How accurst in being so blest! There may be in the sup a spider steeped, and one may drink, depart, and yet partake no venom, for his knowledge is not infected; but if one present th' abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known how he hath drunk,

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Leontes

Winter's Tale
-if you don't know the spider is in your cup, you're fine. If you see the spider in your cup, you will be sick. Hermione pregnant-->spider-->poisonous

Front 58

We enjoin thee, as thou are liegeman to us, that thou carry this female bastard hence, and that thou bear it to some remote and desert place quite out

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Leontes

Winter's Tale

Front 59

I swear to do this, though a present death had been more merciful.-Come on, poor babe. Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens to be thy nurses!

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Antigonus

Winter's Tale

Front 60

Sir, the year growing ancient, not yet on summer's death nor on the birth of trembling winter, the fairest flow'rs o'th season are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, which some call nature's bastards. Of that kind our rustic garden's barren, and I care not to get slips of them.

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Perdita

Winter's Tale

Front 61

For I have heard it said there is an art which in their piedness shares with great creating nature.

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Perdita

Winter's Tale
-unnatural to create these mixtures

Front 62

Say there be; yet nature is made better by no mean but nature makes that mean. So, over that art which you say adds to nature is an art that nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry a gentler scion to the wildest stock, and make conceive a bark of baser kind by bud of nobler race.

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Polixnes

Winter's Tale
-no, it's natural but then doesn't seem to be the same sentiment when it comes to ppl

Front 63

I'll not put the dibble in earth to set one slip of them, no more than, were I painted, I would wish this youth should say 'twere well, and only therefore desire to breed by me

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Perdita

Winter's Tale

Front 64

Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier see'st thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? Hath not my gait in it measure of the court?

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Autolycus

Winter's Tale

Front 65

I'll fill your grave up. Stir, nay, come away, bequeath to death your numbness, fo rfrom him dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs. Start not. Her actions shall be holy as you hear my spell is lawful.

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Paulina

Winter's Tale

Front 66

Lie there, my art.-Wipe thou thine eyes. Have comfort.

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Prospero

The Tempest

Front 67

Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough. Of temporal royalties he thinks me now incapable; confederates-so dry he was for sway-wi'th' King of Naples to give him annual tribute, do him homage, subject his coronet to his crown

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Prospero

The Tempest

Front 68

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howled away twelve winters

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Prospero

The Tempest

Front 69

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven
s feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both! A southwest blow on ye blister you all o'er!

Back 69

Caliban

The Tempest

Front 70

Filth as thou art, with humane care, and lodged thee in mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate the honor of my child.

Back 70

Prospero

The Tempest

Front 71

Abhorred slave, which any print of goodness wilt not take, being capable of all ill!

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Miranda

The Tempest

Front 72

Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange.

Back 72

Ariel

The Tempest
- the transformation of someone through death

Front 73

I had forgot that foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates against my life. The minute of their plot is almost come.

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Prospero

The Tempest

Front 74

You do look, my son, in a moved sort, as if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air; and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great glob itself, yea , all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.

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Prospero

The Tempest
theatrical- lasts for a moment, air images, all of life is a pageant (insubstantial)

Front 75

That if you now beheld them your affections would become tender

mine would sir, were I human

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Ariel

The Tempest

Front 76

Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, and ye that on the sands with printless foot do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him when he comes back

Back 76

Prospero

The Tempest
-powers that do beyond human to godly

Front 77

Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh, brave new world that has such people in't!

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Miranda

The Tempest

Front 78

Would here have killed your king, I do forgive thee, unnatural though thou art

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Prospero

The Tempest

Front 79

This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine

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Prospero

The Tempest
-caliban is his creation and therefore is his responsibility

Front 80

corpus naturale

Back 80

human, physical, decaying body

Front 81

corpus mysticum

Back 81

the social, administrative body of the Church, becomes the disourse between the king's two bodies, with the kingship attaining the same mystical, timeless status

Front 82

as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport

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gloucest

king lear

Front 83

the gods are just

Back 83

Edgar

king lear

Front 84

some good I mean to do, / Despite of my own nature

Back 84

Edmund

King Lear

Front 85

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes;  I stumbled when I saw.”

Back 85

gloucester

king lear

Front 86

“The wheel is come full circle; I am here.”

Back 86

Edmund

king lear

Front 87

“Thy life’s a miracle.”

Back 87

Edgar

king lear

Front 88

tragic comedy

Back 88

early disasters (real, perceived, or threatened) are overcome through miraculous means; redemption or reconciliation are key